How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood... - Henry David Thoreau

"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."